Cultural Heritage in Post-Conflict Contexts Cases from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

1. When the Dust Settles: Critical Perspectives on Post-Conflict Heritage Recovery Nour A. Munawar and James Symonds

PART I Heritage as a Therapy: Memory, Communities, and Responses

2. Emotions and Cathartic Practice: A Theoretical Framework for Affective Ethnography in Post-Conflict Cultural Heritage Sarina Wakefield and Annette Loeseke

3. Cultural Heritage and Exile Ammar Azzouz

4. Issues and Challenges to Engaging Local Communities in Post-Conflict Archaeology and Archaeological Heritage Paul Newson and Ruth Young

5. Memories, Collective yet Divided: The Potentials of Postwar Memorialisation in Aleppo Mounir Sabeh Affaki

PART II Ours and Theirs: Heritage Responses and International Community

6. Post-Conflict Virtual Reconstruction in Palmyra: Displaced Syrian Communities in Jordan Engage with their Cultural Heritage Emanuela Sebastiani and Patrick M. Michel

7. Whose Common Values and Culture? Examining EU Policy on Post-Conflict Rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage in Sabratha, Libya Aurora Hamm

8. Cultural Heritage in Palestine between Political Chaos and Systematic Falsification of Evidence Ghattas J. Sayej

9. Preserving Community-Led Digital Heritage and the Tender Return of Displaced Voices in al-Raqqa, Syria Sarah Barker 

10. Russian Media and the Framing of Heritage Protection in Syria Thomas Richard

PART III Cultural Heritage in Post-Conflict MENA: Comparative Approaches

11. Historic Ties and Modern Conflicts: The Heritage of Iran and Iraq and Its Implications for Regional Dynamics Bijan Rouhani and Bill Finlayson

12. Reconstruction Approaches for Historical Buildings in the Ancient City of Aleppo Christine Kousa

13. Reflections on Continuity and Change: Post-Conflict Recovery of the Historic City of Benghazi, Libya Nur Alah Abdelzayed Valdeolmillos and Djamel Boussaa

14. The Impact of War on UNESCO World Heritage Sites: The Case of Dar Qita Maamoun Abdulkarim and Afaf Laila

15. Postscript: Cultural Heritage in Sudan: Preservation and Risk Mitigation During the Civil War (2023-2024) Maamoun Abdulkarim.

Biography

Nour A. Munawar is an archaeologist and UNESCO heritage expert. He earned his PhD in 2021 and is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, where his research explores heritage, memory, and decoloniality in the Global South. He was recently commissioned by UNESCO to lead a research project on documentary heritage in the Arab region.